Here is a mission with weather where DMT, FLIR, NVG, and TPOD are utterly useless.
You cold start start at divert field north of Anderson AFB (Guam). TACAN 19X
Fly to grid CR06. Find the static targets. Ammo crates and large fuel bowser. Out one or two GBU-54B JDAMS on them,
Recover at divert field.
Weather . LETHAL. Low clouds, thick haze, with breaks. IMC low ceiling for all phases of mission. I based weather on number of real world tragedies.
You will likely be engaging target in dark.
You will recover in pitch black.
Mission is attached
So here are my takes on it.
This is a training mission of IMC low celling all weather flight and ground attack. But in dark with low clouds. User may add threats of choice.
You notice that FLIR, TPOD in FLIR mode, and NVG are next to useless. They provide no usable information. TPOD in FLIR mode is mostly solid color, as it cannot see IT through clouds and cloud haze. Things get confusing fast. Nose FLIR likewise shows poor quality imagery insufficient to safely fly, attack target, and recover. NVG are almost useless. In dark, NVG is so noisy and has no contrast just amber green noise. Go ahead and brighten or darken NVG. NVG noise also cancels out red dots cheat, when looking at target with NVG and HUD (set to night). Red dot is drowned by NVG noise. At low level you may find that judging distance and aspect to target difficult to impossible. Although this is my mission, I have yet to completed it successfully. The primary threat in this mission is weather.
